Virtualization Platform & Orchestration Engineer

Samsung • Plano, TX

3d

About The Position

Samsung Electronics America, Inc. (SEA), the U.S. Sales and Marketing subsidiary, is a leader in mobile technologies, consumer electronics, home appliances, enterprise solutions and networks systems. For more than four decades, Samsung has driven innovation, economic growth and workforce opportunity across the United States—investing over $100 billion and employing more than 20,000 people nationwide. By integrating our large portfolio of products, services and AI technology, we’re creating smarter, sustainable and more connected experiences that empower people to live better. SEA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. The role of the Wireless Networks Team is to support our carrier customers through innovative technology. The dynamic culture at Samsung offers both great challenge and great reward. We are looking for a Virtualization Platform & Orchestration Engineer to join our Wireless Networks team. You will be a key contributor on a multi-functional team of R&D, systems engineering, product validation and product support as we introduce Samsung products to Wireless Carriers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in EE/CS/TE is required.
• Experience working in a professional and highly technical environment with a distinct exposure to virtualization technology
• Experience and comfort working in a Linux environment, including scripting and command-line proficiency
• Experience working with various virtualization technologies, such as Openstack and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with commercial cloud hyperscalers
• Thorough understanding of virtualization technologies such as CPU pinning, NUMA, guest isolation in multi-tenant scenarios, and SRIOV
• Understanding of ETSI MANO Reference Architecture and the functions of the various components described therein
• Knowledge of wireless network technologies, including RAN, Core and Transport
• Knowledge of various software engineering concepts, such as message queues, multi-threading, algorithms, interfaces, inter-process communication, security, and relational databases
• Understanding of networking concepts, such as TCP/IP, VLAN, sockets, IPv4/6, NAT, routing and interface snooping.
• Knowledge of various compute resource aspects: CPU, memory and disk and assessing the performance of each
• Knowledge of DevOps concepts, and CI/CD.
• Must have troubleshooting experience using command-line tools and scripting tools, such as shell, Python, etc.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree is beneficial.
• Knowledge of cloud-native concepts preferred.
• Experience with switch configuration preferred.
• Technical Acumen Key contributor in driving the technical solutions to customer through complex organizational dynamics
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to fast-changing technology
• Ability to follow complex procedures accurately and thoroughly
• Presentations Skills Leveraging your ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, including our R&D, as well as Samsung vendors and customers.
• Excellence Dealing with Ambiguity Bringing your experience in problem solving and ability to navigate complex organizations with pivotal shifts

Responsibilities

• Installation, commissioning and configuration of virtualized environment. This includes BIOS configuration, Linux Operating System installations and configuration, network scripts, etc. KVM, numa, grub configuration
• Installation of Openstack platform, and configuration of the same
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Kubernetes-based CaaS environments, including Redhat Openshift and Windriver Titanium, as well as the community version of Kubernetes
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of CNCF PaaS toolsets, such as Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana, Kiali, etc
• Create test cases, test plans and execute test plans for Samsung Orchestration solutions in Samsung Lab as well as in customer labs. Document test results. This includes feature testing, performance testing and inter-operability testing.
• Work in a team environment, to troubleshoot commercial Virtualization and Orchestration application issues, propose workarounds, and work with R&D to provide the RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to the customer. This sometimes involves 24x7 support.
• Works closely with various support organizations and cross-functional teams from SEA and Samsung R&D to achieve successful new product roll-outs and developments.
• Ensure that customer commitments are achieved according to plan.
• Ability to travel sporadically during the project.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401(k), Employee Purchase Program, Tuition Assistance (after 12 months), Paid Time Off, Student Loan Program (after 12 months), Wellness Incentives, MBO bonus compensation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level